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10/20/2003 Archived Entry: "Bin Laden & Hussein -- Dead"

Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are both occasionally cropping up in the media through tapes released to Aljazeera. GWB seems convinced that they are still alive. The news coverage seems to usually take their status of "living and not dead" as true, if not explicitly, implicitly.

I'm rather surprised that most people are not fairly convinced they are dead. I think they are dead. I'm totally open to the notion that they are alive, but I honestly think the odds are against it.

The audio tapes supposedly of Bin Laden and Hussein are touted as evidence that they are alive. To me they indicate that they are dead. Both these individuals are known to have made video tapes before. These are folks who where comfortable in front of a camera. Now we are just getting audio tapes. Doesn't seem like these fellows would really enjoy making videos of themselves making it very clear to their followers that rumors of their demise have been exaggerated by stupid imperialists?

I really think these guys are dead. Funny thing is, I get the feeling that lots of people seem to prefer thinking of these men as still being alive even if they hate everything about them. Maybe OBL and SH personify evil and make great targets. Maybe we enjoy a good chase. Maybe people like the idea of the two men suffering a slow death on the run. I don't know.

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